Iran General Statement at the NPT Review Conference

H.E. Mr. Reza Najafi delivered the Statement on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 11th Session of the NPT Review Conference on 29 April 2026 in New York

The main points of the Statement are as of the following:

1. These NPT’s accumulated grave challenges reveal that all Treaty pillars have shaken, cracked and fractured and put the Treaty’s entirety at risk. Western States, particularly the US, UK, France and Germany, are responsible for the most of these challenges, either through their 55-years of non-compliance with their nuclear disarmament obligations or Treaty’s violation in the form of nuclear-weapon sharing and arrangements like AUKUS.

2. While all of Iran’s enriched uranium has always been under the IAEA’s fullest supervision and accounted for, even up to its last gram, and till now there is no report whatsoever about the diversion of even one gram of such material, the Americans falsely portrayed Iran’s enriched uranium as a danger!

3. The US delusionally intended to destroy our integrity, independence and civilization, send us back to the “Stone Age,” and get our oil and gas! But before that, they should have studied our history, our culture, and our civilization, to understand the meaning of “martyrdom” and the rationale behind a civilized nation’s resistance up to the last drop of its blood. They must have also understood that contemporarily, we’ve been and are very well-known for defeating invaders and taking back our territory, sovereignty, independence, and oil and gas: our gravest crime in the lens of western invaders.

4. Final Document of the Conference must include concrete time-bound plan for the total elimination of all nuclear weapons, a decisive decision on the Middle East, by compelling the Israeli regime to renounce the possession of nuclear weapons and to join the NPT, unequivocal reaffirmation of absolute prohibition of any armed attack on safeguarded nuclear facilities, and reaffirmation of the inalienable right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in all its aspects including an inherent right to a full national nuclear fuel cycle.

Here is the full statement.